Michael Bloomberg

As we all now know Amazon picked New York City and the northern Virginia inner ring suburbs of Washington D.C. for their HQ2. Both characterized by high concentrations of those with four-year degrees or more and extensive transit systems. As we…

Then New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg got it right when he wrote in a Financial Times column: The most creative individuals want to live in places that protect personal freedoms, prize diversity and offer an abundance of cultural opportunities.…

More than four years ago I wrote about the prosperity of Manhattan (and more broadly all of New York City) this way: Here the dominant narrative about the economy is that everything that makes Manhattan a powerful engine of economic…

Terrific CityLab article entitled The Real Source of American Urban Revival. It documents the trend we have been writing about for nearly a decade that young professionals far more than previous generations are concentrating in central cities not the suburbs.…

For years we have used the following quote from Rich Karlgaard, publisher of Forbes magazine, to describe what increasingly drives state and local economic growth: "Best place to make a future Forbes 400 fortune? Start with this proposition: The most…

Conventional wisdom is that people follow jobs. So the most effective talent attraction and retention strategy, once again according to conventional wisdom, is to create jobs. If conventional wisdom were right Michigan should have reversed the net outmigration of young…